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By Jason Verly
A while back I wrote about how to use Javascript to calculate date functions in BIRT . In this post I will show different methods that can be used to automatically calculate dates so it can be scheduled as a rolling date report. The example I will use is for a report to run every day and show a given date range summary - e.g. WO costs month to date. Since this report needs to run everyday, the report itself should.... READ THE ENTIRE BLOG POST HERE

This blog covers the work that the Maximo Asset Configuration Manager (ACM) team has been doing recently, in particular the last ACM release and the capability for electronic Flight Log Book (eFLB). This is not a user guide, but a brief insight into the approach and how we went about it, so even if you don’t use ACM it will (hopefully) be interesting.
The Requirement for Automating the FLB for ACM:
The requirement to have an eFLB as part of Maximo ACM was driven by client demand to support the... [More]

This webcast will be held on August 29, 2013, 11:00 AM -12:00 PM ET, US
OVERVIEW :
You have Maximo and you are ready to upgrade to the latest version. With its enhancements across usability, applications, and supply chain, IBM Maximo 7.5 offers numerous technical benefits to your maintenance and operations departments. Join Dave Dawson, Interloc’s VP of Professional Services and James Maxie, one of Interloc’s Senior Technical Consultants as they share best practices when preparing for your upgrades.... [More]

Facing a local customer need to have material around Maximo Calibration in portuguese in Brazil, made me consider to not only help translate some few materials for an urgent need but, also helped understand there was this need to create a local content web place for informative material around this industry solution.
Working with Calibration for more than five years allowed me to have experience enough to risk writing about it with relevant content. So I started with the opening of a public community inside developerWorks here -... [More]

You can search all the publications in the Information Centers for a particular string.
Enter your search string in the Search field.
Click the flashlight and click GO .
You can also limit your search to the products you own.
Click Search scope .
Select Show only the following topics and click New .
Select the products that you own or that you are interested in searching and then click OK .
In this example, scope1 is chosen for the List name , and I BM Tivoli... [More]

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Todd Loveday , Maximo Project Manager, URS Corporation
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Co-Authored by Dan Miller, Maximo developer
In his Best Practices for Configuring Tivoli process automation engine application document Scott Dickerson discussed relating two existing objects in a new relationship. Bruno Portaluri has also blogged on this subject where he has discussed linking Parent-Child records in Maximo by writing java code.
Dan Miller and I would like to show you how you can link parent – child records using Maximo applications (NO CODING!) and also show you how you can use the Child... [More]

Todd is the leader of the Mountain West Maximo User Group - join their meeting 8/4-8/6 in Park City, UT: http://tivoli-ug.org/ug/local/na/usa/ut/272/c/e/773.aspx
What is your title and role within your company?
I am the Maximo Project Manager at URS Corporation’s chemical demilitarization facility in Tooele, Utah as well as the Program Co-Director of the Mountain West Maximo User Group (MWMUG). Our facility is located.... Read more on the TUC

I didn’t see any faces on my toast this morning. But the tall oak outside my kitchen window gave me a very inquisitive look as I left the house. Really? Yes. Seeing is believing!
In the last few BiLogs, we’ve been talking about the metadata used in the Maximo-Cognos Report Integration. These discussions have included -
1. Defining the meta data, as a pre-joined, hierarchal collections of database object here
2. Capitalizing on... [More]

In Maximo 7.5.0.3 Fix Pack BIRT version was upgraded from 2.3.2 to 3.7.1. After upgrading from a pre-Maximo 7.5.0.3 version to Maximo 7.5.0.3 or higher version, sometimes BIRT immediate reports run but Direct Print and Scheduled reports fail. This might be an installation problem.
Check the number of files in applications\maximo\maximouiweb\webmodule\WEB-INF\birt\platform\plugins directory (do not include directories in this count). If you find more than 205 files then there is an installation problem. Both BIRT 2.3.2 and 3.7.1 files are... [More]

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The customized reports developed in BIRT and added to Maximo Base Services applications can be easily available at Industry Solutions cloned applications. To describe these steps, here is an example of adding a report from Work Order application (Maximo Base Services) to Work Order (Oil) application (Maximo for Oil and Gas).
Example:
Considering a customer who has developed a customized BIRT report in Work Order application and wants to make this report available at Work Order (Oil) application.
Customer's report... [More]

Some rules are hard to follow. Not eating dessert before dinner. Always walking inside of the crosswalk. Not bringing my favorite Diet Raspberry Ice Tea to a movie theatre.
Business rules in Maximo specify product functionality. In the Maximo Cognos report integration, there are some key business rules to be aware of for the metadata publishing process we’ve been reviewing the last few weeks. As noted in the last entry, you can publish Report Object Structures... [More]